Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Uzbekistan and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing B.T. Express to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Echospace,
Sonic Youth,
Tom Boy,
Nas,
Gregory Isaacs,
Carl Craig,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Blues Magoos,
Sam Rivers,
DJ Style,
Henry Cow,
Soulsonic Force,
Average White Band,
The Velvet Underground,
Spoonie Gee,
Negative Approach,
DNA,
Clear Light,
The Angels of Light,
Moss Icon,
The Tremeloes,
Pylon,
Harpers Bizarre,
Harmonia,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sound Behaviour,
Eddi Front,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Standells,
Eurythmics,
Flash Fearless,
Donald Byrd,
The Remains,
The Stooges,
Country Joe & The Fish,
the Human League,
Cameo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Young Rascals,
Parry Music,
Oneida,
The Durutti Column,
the Slits,
Delta 5,
Barclay James Harvest,
Marc Almond,
Darondo,
Laurel Aitken,
Severed Heads,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Doors,
Joe Smooth,
James White and The Blacks,
Lower 48,
Hashim,
The Count Five,
Skaos,
Charles Mingus,
Gang of Four,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.